Spring fruits

17 fruits

Fruits that peak as the dry season builds — including the start of mango season in Southeast Asia.

Apricot illustration

Apricot

The golden miniature of the stone-fruit family — musky, honeyed, and tragically fragile fresh, which is why the world knows it best dried. Central Asia's ancient orchard treasure.

Stone fruit Summer Spring
Cherry illustration

Cherry

The fleeting jewel of early summer — glossy, snappy, and gone in weeks. Sweet cherries for the bowl, sour cherries for the pie, and a blossom season that stops whole nations to look up.

Stone fruit Summer Spring
Grapefruit illustration

Grapefruit

An 18th-century Caribbean accident — pomelo crossed with sweet orange — that became breakfast's most polarizing citrus: bitter, bracing, and beloved once your palate grows into it.

Citrus Winter Spring
Jabuticaba illustration

Jabuticaba

The tree that fruits on its own trunk — grape-like black berries that erupt straight from the bark, with sweet translucent flesh and a thick, tannic, wine-toned skin.

Berry Spring Summer
Kiwi illustration

Kiwi

A Chinese vine fruit rebranded by New Zealand into a global icon — emerald flesh, edible black seeds, dessert-bright acidity, and more vitamin C than an orange, gram for gram.

Berry Winter Spring
Loquat illustration

Loquat

Spring''s first stone fruit impostor — an apricot-colored pome (apple family!) with juicy, floral sweet-tart flesh and big glossy seeds. A backyard giveaway across the subtropics, a cough-syrup icon in China.

Pome Spring
Lychee illustration

Lychee

China's imperial berry — rose-scented, grape-fleshed, jade-seeded, and adored for two millennia. An emperor famously ran pony express relays just to deliver it fresh; one taste explains why.

Tropical & subtropical Summer Spring
Mango illustration

Mango

The world's most beloved tropical stone fruit — honey-sweet golden flesh with floral, resinous notes. The Philippine Carabao variety is prized as one of the sweetest on earth.

Stone fruit Spring Summer
Mulberry illustration

Mulberry

The silk tree's secret dessert — blackberry-lookalike fruit that stains fingers purple and never reaches supermarkets because it dissolves in transit. A backyard and market-stall treasure worldwide.

Berry Summer Spring
Orange illustration

Orange

The world's benchmark citrus — an ancient pomelo-mandarin hybrid whose name became a color and whose vitamin C reputation launched a juice industry. Navels for eating, Valencias for squeezing.

Citrus Winter Spring
Strawberry illustration

Strawberry

The world's favorite berry — a rose-family hybrid whose seeds sit on the outside, whose peak-season perfume defines "fruity," and whose highland farms bring temperate sweetness to the tropics.

Berry Winter Spring
Surinam cherry illustration

Surinam cherry

A ribbed, pumpkin-shaped little fruit that ripens from green through orange to deep crimson-black — sweet-tart and resinous, the beloved pitanga of Brazilian backyards.

Berry Spring Summer
Tamarind illustration

Tamarind

The sour engine of half the world's cuisines — a legume pod whose sticky brown pulp powers sinigang, pad thai, agua de tamarindo, Worcestershire sauce, and chutneys across four continents.

Tropical & subtropical Spring Summer

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